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...installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze of prices and wages and a partial rollback of prices were in the works...
...Lauritz Melchior, 60, whose wanderings from the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. There were wild charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since she left it in 1941 to go to her husband in Nazi-occupied Norway, Walter Winchell and others...
...Partial mobilization will doubtless make demands on faculty members, Conant noted, but in order that these demands cause the least possible damage to universities, he recommended that faculty men serve the nation for only short periods of time. They would then be replaced by colleagues who would serve an equally short period of time...
...would be a grave mistake," President Conant warned, however, "to do otherwise than to plan for a long period of partial mobilization...
...surprise motion by Henry M. Silveira '51, president of the Student Council, to hold elections for now council officers tonight instead of Monday, as originally planned, met with only partial success last night when, after a brief but heated argument, the council compromised, and decided to hold elections on Thursday...